Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OF
EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS
AND THE
Madness of Crowds.
By CHARLES MACKAY, LL.D.
AUTHOR OF âEGERIA,â âTHE SALAMANDRINE,â ETC.
BOILEAU.
LONDON:
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY,
227 STRAND.
1852.
CONTENTS.
• Volume I.
♦ Contents.
♦ List of Engravings.
♦ Preface.
♦ The Mississippi Scheme.
♦ The South-Sea Bubble.
♦ The Tulipomania.
♦ The Alchymists.
♦ Modern Prophecies.
♦ Fortune-Telling.
♦ The Magnetisers.
♦ Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard.
• Volume II.
♦ Contents.
♦ List of Engravings.
♦ The Crusades.
INDEX.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWYZ
• Abraham, Noah, and Moses said to have been alchymists, i. 95, 114.
• Acre besieged in the Third Crusade, ii. 69;
♦ natural origin of the study of Alchymy, its connexion with astrology, &c., i. 94;
♦ alleged antiquity of the study, 95;
♦ its early history, 96;
♦ Memoirs of Geber, 96;
♦ Alfarabi, 97;
♦ Avicenna, 98;
♦ Albertus Magnus, with portrait, Thomas Aquinas, 99;
♦ Artephius, 102;
♦ Alain Delisle, 102;
♦ Arnold de Villeneuve, with portrait, 103;
♦ receipt for the elixir vitæ ascribed to him, 103;
♦ Pietro dâApone, 104;
♦ Raymond Lulli, with portrait, 105;
♦ Roger Bacon, 110;
♦ Pope John XXII., 111;
♦ Jean de Meung, 112;
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♦ Nicholas Flamel, 113;
♦ George Ripley, 118;
♦ Basil Valentine, 119;
♦ Bernard of Treves, 119;
♦ Trithemius, 124;
♦ Maréchal de Rays, 125;
♦ Jacques CÅur, 132;
♦ inferior adepts of the 14th and 15th centuries, 135;
♦ progress of the infatuation in the 16th and 17th centuries, 137-189;
♦ Augurello, 137;
♦ Cornelius Agrippa, with portrait, 138;
♦ Paracelsus, with portrait, 142;
♦ George Agricola, 145;
♦ Denis Zachaire, 146;
♦ Dr. Dee, with portrait, and Edward Kelly, 152;
♦ Dr. Deeâs âShewstoneâ (engraving), 154;
♦ the Cosmopolite, 163;
♦ the Rosicrucians, 167;
♦ Jacob Böhmen, 177;
♦ Mormius, 178;
♦ Borri, 179;
♦ inferior Alchymists of the 17th century, 185;
♦ their impositions, 188;
♦ Alchymy since that period, 189-220;
♦ Jean Delisle, 189;
♦ Albert Aluys, 197;
♦ the Count de St. Germain, 200;
♦ Cagliostro, 206;
♦ present state of Alchymy, 220.
• Alexius I., Emperor, his treatment of the Crusaders, ii. 17-19;
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♦ investigation by the elders of the kirk; the noises caused by servant-girls, 237.
• Baldwin (King of Jerusalem), joins the Crusaders at Nice, ii. 27;
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• Banking schemes of John Law, i. 4.
• Bank of England, its competition with the South-Sea Company, i. 48, 66.
• Baptism mocked in the witchesâ âSabbaths,â ii. 109.
• Barbarin, Chevalier de, his experiments in animal magnetism, i. 286.
• Barbarossa, the Emperor, commences the Third Crusade; his death, ii. 63, 64.
• Barthelemy, Peter, his pretended vision and discovery of the âholy lance;â its effect on the Crusaders;
battle of Antioch, the Turks defeated, ii. 35-40;
♦ charged with falsehood, subjected to the fiery ordeal, and burnt to death, 41.
• Bastille, the. (See Paris.)
• Bavaria, ordinance against moustaches, i. 302.
• Beards forbidden to be worn; religious and political prejudices, i. 296-303.
♦ (See Hair.)
• Beckmannâs remarks on the tulip, i. 86.
• âBeggarâs Opera,â its popularity and immoral influence, ii. 258.
• Berangerâs Song, âThirteen at Table,â i. 257.
• Bernard of Treves, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 119.
• Best and Lord Camelford, their fatal duel, ii. 297.
• Bethlehem, Shrine of the Nativity (engraving), ii. 43;
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• Bubble Companies, contemporaneously with the South-Sea Scheme, their extravagant character, i. 52;
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• Clermont, Urban II. preaches the Crusade there; cathedral of (engraving), ii. 9.
• Cock-Lane Ghost, history of the deception; views of the âhaunted house,â ii. 228, 230.
• CÅur, Jaques, memoir of, i. 132;
♦ his participation in the South-Sea Bubble, 64, 71, 73, 77, 78;
♦ his death, 80.
• Craggs, Mr., father of the above, his participation in the fraud; his death, i. 80.
• Criminals, anxiety to possess relics of their crimes, ii. 306.
♦ (See Thieves.)
• Cromwell, Sir Samuel, his persecution of âThe Witches of Warbois,â ii. 126.
• Cross, trial or ordeal of the, ii. 264.
• Cross, the true. (See Relics.)
• Crusades, The, ii. 1-100;
♦ differently represented in history and in romance; pilgrimages before the Crusades, ii. 2;
♦ encouraged by Haron al Reschid; pilgrims taxed by the Fatemite caliphs; increase of
pilgrimages in anticipation of the millenium, 3;
♦ oppressions of the Turks; consequent indignation of the pilgrims, 4;
♦ Peter the Hermit espouses their cause; state of the public mind in Europe, 5;
♦ motives leading to the Crusades, 6;
♦ Peter the Hermit stimulates the Pope; his personal appearance, 7;
♦ council at Placentia, 8;
♦ the Pope preaches the Crusade at Clermont, 9;
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♦ enthusiasm of the people, 10;
♦ increased by signs and portents, 11;
♦ zeal of the women, 12;
♦ crowds of Crusaders, 13;
♦ âThe truce of Godâ proclaimed; dissipation of the Crusaders, 14;
♦ popular leaders; Walter the Penniless, and Gottschalk, 15;
♦ conflicts with the Hungarians, 15, 16;
♦ Peter the Hermit defeated; arrives at Constantinople, 17;
♦ the Emperor Alexius; dissensions and reverses of the first Crusaders, 18;
♦ Peter the Hermit assisted by Alexius, 19;
♦ fresh hordes from Germany and France; their cruelty to the Jews, 20;
♦ defeated in Hungary; fresh leaders; Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugh count of Vermandois, Robert
duke of Normandy, Robert count of Flanders and Bohemund, 21;
♦ the immense number of their forces; Hugh of Vermandois imprisoned, 23;
♦ his release obtained by Godfrey of Bouillon, 24;
♦ insolence of Count Robert of Paris; weakness of Alexius, 25;
♦ the siege of Nice, 26;
♦ barbarity of the Crusaders and Musselmen; anecdote of Godfrey of Bouillon, 27;
♦ Nice surrenders to Alexius; battle of DorylÅum, 28;
♦ improvidence and sufferings of the Crusaders, 29, 30;
♦ the siege of Antioch, 29, 31;
♦ Crusaders reduced to famine, 30;
♦ Antioch taken by treachery in the garrison (engraving), 32;
♦ the city invested by the Turks, 34;
♦ increasing famine and desertion, 35;
♦ Peter Barthelemy, his pretended vision, and discovery of the âHoly Lanceâ (engraving),
35-37, 40;
♦ revival of enthusiasm, 38;
♦ battle of Antioch, and defeat of the Turks, 38;
♦ dissensions, 40;
♦ fate of Peter Barthelemy, 41;
♦ Marah taken by storm, 42;
♦ shrine of the nativity at Bethlehem, (engraving), 43;
♦ first sight of Jerusalem (engraving), 44;
♦ the city besieged and taken, 45;
♦ Peter the Hermitâs fame revives, 46;
♦ Jerusalem under its Christian kings, 48;
♦ Godfrey of Bouillon succeeded by Baldwin; continual conflicts with the Saracens; Edessa
taken by them, 50.
♦ Second Crusade:âSociety in Europe at its commencement, 52;
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◊ successes of Saladin, 63;
◊ Barbarossa defeats the Saracens, 64;
◊ Crusade joined by Henry II. and Philip Augustus, 64;
◊ they meet at Gisors (engraving), 65;
◊ the Crusade unpopular, 66;
◊ delayed by war between France and England, death of Henry II.; Richard and Philip
proceed to Palestine, 67;
◊ Richard attacks the Sicilians, 68;
◊ arrives at Acre, 69;
◊ siege and surrender of the city, 71;
◊ dissensions, Philip returns to France, Saladin defeated at Azotus, 72;
◊ Crusaders reach Bethlehem (engraving), retreat agreed on, 73;
◊ Jaffa attacked by Saladin and rescued by Richard, peace concluded, Richardâs
imprisonment and ransom, 74.
♦ Fourth Crusade, undertaken by the Germans; its failure, 75.
♦ Fifth Crusade:âFoulque, Bishop of Neuilly, enlists the chivalry of France; assisted by the
Venetians; siege of Zara, 76;
◊ battle of Gaza; Richard earl of Cornwall; truce agreed on; the Korasmins take
Jerusalem, 88;
◊ they subdue the Templars, but are extirpated by the Syrian sultans, 90.
♦ Ninth Crusade, began by Louis IX., 90;
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◊ defeats the Turks at Nazereth; is treacherously wounded; the legend of Queen
Eleanor, 98;
◊ her tomb at Westminster (engraving); a truce concluded; Edward returns to England;
subsequent fate of the Holy Land, 99;
◊ civilising influence of the Crusades, 100.
• Currency in France, the Mississippi scheme, i. 4.
♦ his connexion with Marie Antoinette and the diamond necklace, 216-220.
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• DâEslon, a pupil of Mesmer, i. 276, 280.
• Desmarets, Minister of France, his belief in alchymy, i. 192.
• Devil, the, old popular notions of, ii. 103;
♦ efforts to save his life, inflexibility of the Regent, his execution, 22, 23.
• Diamond, famous, purchased by the Regent Orleans, i. 27.
• Diamond Necklace of Marie Antoinette, history of the theft, i. 206-220.
• Diamonds worn by the Count St. Germain, i. 203;
♦ the ordeal by combat, or trial by battle, its natural origin; authorised by law, 262;
♦ discouraged by the clergy, 263;
♦ the oath upon the Evangelists, 264;
♦ judgment by the cross, 264;
♦ fire-ordeal, 265;
♦ ordeals used by modern Hindoos, 265;
♦ water ordeal, 265;
♦ the corsned, or bread and cheese ordeal, 266;
♦ ordeals superseded by judicial combats, 267;
♦ duels of Ingelgerius and Gontran (engraving), 269;
♦ De Montfort and the Earl of Essex, 270;
♦ Du Guesclin and Troussel (engraving), 261, 271;
♦ Carrouges and Legris, 272;
♦ La Chataigneraie and De Jarnac, 273;
♦ LâIsle-Marivaut and Marolles, 276;
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♦ the Dukes de Beaufort and de Nemours, 282;
♦ Count de Bussy and Bruc, 282;
♦ frivolous causes of duels, 270, 271, 276, 282, 292, 296;
♦ their prevalence in France, 276, 277, 279, 280, 282;
♦ the custom opposed by Sully and Henry IV.; council at Fontainebleau (engraving), and royal
edict, 277-279;
♦ efforts of Richelieu to suppress duelling, 280;
♦ De Bouteville, a famous duellist, beheaded by the justice of Richelieu; opinion of Addison on
duelling, 281;
♦ duels in Germany, 282;
♦ severe edict by Louis XIV., 283;
♦ singular laws of Malta, 284;
♦ judicial combat in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; Lord Bacon opposes duelling, 285;
♦ Lord Sanquirâs duel with Turner; his execution for murder; combat between Lord Reay and
David Ramsay prevented by Charles I., 287;
♦ Orders of the Commonwealth and Charles II. against the practice; Duke of Buckinghamâs
duel with Earl Shrewsbury; disgraceful conduct of Charles II., 288;
♦ practice of seconds in duels fighting as well as principals, 280, 288;
♦ arguments of Addison, Steele, and Swift, 288;
♦ duels in England; Sir C. Deering and Mr. Thornhill; Duke of Marlborough and Earl Pawlet;
Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun; trial of General Macartney, 289-292;
♦ Wilson killed by John Law, i. 3;
♦ Mr. Chaworth killed by Lord Byron, ii. 292;
♦ Vicomte Du Barri by Count Rice, the Duke of York and Colonel Lennox, 293;
♦ Irish duels, 294;
♦ Major Campbell executed for the death of Captain Boyd, 296;
♦ Macnamara and Montgomery; duels of German students, 297;
♦ Best and Lord Camelford, 297;
♦ Frederick the Great and Joseph II. of Austria opposed to duelling, 298;
♦ other European edicts; laws of America, 299;
♦ general reflections, 300.
• Du Guesclin and Troussel, their duel (engraving,) ii. 261, 271.
• Du Fresnoyâs history of the Hermetic Philosophy, i. 95, 96.
• Duncan, Gellie, and her accomplices tried for witchcraft; their absurd confessions, ii. 129-135.
• Duval, Claude, popular admiration of; Butlerâs ode to his memory, ii. 255.
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♦ falling stars and other meteors before the Crusades, ii. 11.
• Faria, the Abbé, the magnetiser, i. 294.
• Fashion of short and long hair, beards, and moustaches, i. 296-303.
• Female Crusaders. (See Women.)
• Feudalism at the commencement of the Crusades, ii. 5.
• Fian, Dr., tortured for witchcraft, ii. 131.
• Finance in France; the Mississippi scheme, i. 2, 6.
• Fire-ordeal. (See Duels and Ordeals.)
• Flamel, Nicholas, the alchymist, memoir of i. 113.
• Florimond on the prevalence of witchcraft, ii. 115.
• Flowers, fruits, and trees, their significance in dreams, i. 254.
• Fludd, Robert, the father of the English Rosicrucians, memoir of, i. 173;
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♦ existing belief in witchcraft there, ii. 189;
♦ the slow poisoners in, ii. 208;
♦ immense rage for duelling in France, 276, 277, 279, 280;
♦ alchymy in France. (See the Alchymists, Paris, Tours, &c.)
• Franklin, an apothecary, his participation in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195, 198, 199.
• Frederick the Great, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298.
• Frederick II., Emperor of Germany, undertakes the Crusade, ii. 84;
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• Guise, the Duke of, his attempt to poison Gennaro Annese, ii. 202.
• Guizot, M., his remarks on the Crusades, ii. 51.
• Gustavus Adolphus an alchymist, i. 187.
• Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, besieges Acre, ii. 69.
• Hair, its length influenced by religious and political prejudices; legislative enactments, i. 296;
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• Hermes Trismegistus, the founder of alchymy, i. 95.
• Hermetic Philosophy. (See the Alchymists.)
• Heydon, John, an English Rosicrucian, i. 175.
• Heywood, his life and prophecies of Merlin, i. 233.
• Highwaymen. (See Thieves.)
• Hogarthâs caricature of the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 82.
• Holland, the tulip mania. (See Tulip Mania.)
• Hollowayâs lectures on animal magnetism, i. 287.
• Holt, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152.
• âHoly Lance,â the, its pretended discovery (engraving), ii. 37.
• Hopkins, Matthew, the âwitch-finder general,â his cruelty and retributive fate, (engraving), ii.
143-146.
• Horoscope of Louis XIV., i. 249.
• Hugh count of Vermandois imprisoned at Constantinople, ii. 21, 23;
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♦ first pilgrims to, ii. 2;
♦ besieged and taken by the Crusaders, 45;
♦ its state under the Christian kings, 48, 49;
♦ council of the second Crusade there, 60;
♦ captured by Saladin, 63.
• Jewell, Bishop, his exclamations against witchcraft, ii. 124.
• Jews plundered and murdered by the Crusaders, ii. 20.
• Joan of Arc, her execution (engraving), ii. 114.
• John XXII. (Pope), his study of Alchymy, i. 111.
• Johnson, Dr., on the âBeggarâs Opera,â ii. 258.
• Joseph II. of Austria, his opposition to duelling, ii. 298.
• Judicial astrology. (See Astrology.)
• Judicial combats. (See Duels.)
• Karloman, King of Hungary, his contest with the Crusaders, ii. 20.
• Kelly, Edward, the Alchymist, memoir of, i. 152.
• Kendal, Duchess of, her participation in the South-Sea fraud, i. 76, 77.
• Kent, Mr., accused of murder by the âCock Lane Ghost,â ii. 229.
• Kepler, his excuse for astrology, i. 250.
• Kerbogha, leader of the Turks defeated at Antioch, ii. 34, 38, 39.
• Kerr, Robert, afterwards Earl of Somerset. (See Somerset.)
• Kircher abandons his belief in alchymy, i. 185, 183;
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♦ the Great Fire, 230.
♦ (See also Cagliostro, Change Alley, Cornhill, Merchant Taylorsâ Hall, Tower, Westminster.)
• Longbeard, William, cause of his name, i. 300.
• Longsword, William (engraving), joins the ninth Crusade, ii. 91.
• Loudun, the curate of, executed for witchcraft, ii. 168.
• Louis VII. cuts short his hair, and loses his queen, i. 299;
♦ remonstrated with by his Parliament on his leniency to supposed witches, ii. 171;
♦ portrait of, 177;
♦ establishes the âchambre ardenteâ for the trial of poisoners, 214, 283;
♦ his horoscope, 249;
♦ his severe edict against duelling, 283.
• Louis XV., his patronage of the Court St. Germain, i. 201, 204.
• âLoup-garouâ executed in France, ii. 120.
• Loutherbourg, the painter, his alleged cures by animal magnetism, i. 288.
• Lulli, Raymond, a famous alchymist, his romantic history, with portrait, i. 105;
• Macartney, General, second to Lord Mohun, his trial for murder, ii. 292.
• Mackenzie, Sir George, portrait of, ii. 138;
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♦ Animal Magnetism: wonderful cures by Valentine Greatraks, i. 269-272;
♦ Francisco Bagnoni, Van Helmont, Gracian, Baptista Porta, &c., 272;
♦ Wirdig, Maxwell, 273;
♦ the convulsionaires of St. Medard, i. 273;
♦ Father Hell, 274;
♦ Anthony Mesmer, his history and theory, 275;
♦ Mesmer, 276-283;
♦ DâEslon adopts his views, 278, 280, 281;
♦ encouragement to depravity afforded by his experiments, 282, 293;
♦ exposures by MM. Dupotet and Bailly, 279, 281;
♦ Marquis de Puysegur, 283;
♦ Chevalier de Barbarin, 286;
♦ Mainauduc, Holloway, Loutherbourg, 287, 288;
♦ Perkinsâs âMetallic Tractorsâ exposed by Dr. Haygarth, 289;
♦ absurd theories of Deleuze, 291;
♦ the Abbé Faria, fallacies of the theory of, 294.
• Mainauduc, Dr., his experiments in animal magnetism, i. 287.
• Malta, its singular laws on duelling, ii. 284.
• Mansfield, Lord, trial of the âCock-lane Ghostâ conspirators before him, ii. 234.
• Manuel Comnenus, his treatment of the Crusaders, ii. 56, 58, 59.
• Marie Antoinette, history of the diamond necklace, i. 216-220.
• Marlborough, Duke of, his duel with Earl Pawlet, ii. 289.
• Massaniello, relics of his fate treasured by the populace, ii. 305.
• Massoura, battle of, the Saracens defeated, ii. 94.
• Mayer, Michael, his report on the Rosicrucian doctrines, i. 168.
• Maxwell, William, the magnetiser, i. 273.
• Medicis, Catherine di, her encouragement of astrologers, i. 246.
• Medici family, predictions respecting them, i. 247.
• Merchant Taylorsâ Hall, view of gateway, i. 62.
• Merlin, his pretended prophecies, i. 232;
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♦ his notes at a premium; branch banks established; Mississippi trading company established;
bank made a public institution; extensive issue of notes, 10;
♦ opposition of the Parliament, 11;
♦ the Regent uses coercion; Mississippi shares rise, 12;
♦ the Company of the Indies formed; magnificent promises; immense excitement and
applications for shares; Lawâs house in the Rue de Quincampoix (engraving), 13;
♦ hunchback used as a writing-desk (engraving), 15;
♦ enormous gains of individuals, 14, 16, 19, 20, 26;
♦ Lawâs removal to the Place Vendôme, 14;
♦ continued excitement, 15;
♦ removal to the Hotel de Soissons (engraving), 15;
♦ noble and fashionable speculators, 17;
♦ ingenious schemes to obtain shares (engraving), 18;
♦ avarice and ambition of the speculators; robberies and murders, 20;
♦ a broker murdered by Count dâHorn, and robbed of shares (engraving), 21;
♦ temporary stimulus to trade, and illusive prosperity; Law purchases estates, and turns
Catholic, 24;
♦ his charity and modesty, 25;
♦ caricatures of him, as Atlas, 25;
♦ âLuciferâs new row barge,â 29;
♦ in a car drawn by cocks, 40;
♦ increase of luxury in Paris, 26;
♦ the Regent purchases the great diamond, 27;
♦ symptoms of distrust; coin further depreciated, 28;
♦ use of specie forbidden, at Lawâs suggestion, 29;
♦ popular hatred excited, 30;
♦ fall of shares, 31;
♦ conscription for the Mississippi gold mines (engraving), 31;
♦ further issue of notes, and increased distrust and distress, 32;
♦ payment stopped, and Law dismissed from the ministry, 33;
♦ his danger from the populace, 33, 35, 38;
♦ DâAguesseauâs measures to restore credit (portrait), 34;
♦ run on the Bank, 34;
♦ fatal accidents in the crowd, 34;
♦ the Mississippi and India companies deprived of their privileges, 39;
♦ Law leaves France, 40;
♦ DâArgensonâs dismissal and unpopularity, 42;
♦ Lawâs subsequent history and death, 43;
♦ caricatures of the scheme in its success and failure, 25, 29, 37, 40, 44.
• Modern prophecies, i. 222-241.
• Mohra, in Sweden, absurd charges of witchcraft, and numerous executions, ii. 177.
• Mohun, Lord, his duel with the Duke of Hamilton, ii. 290.
• Mompesson, Mr., his âhaunted houseâ at Tedworth, ii. 224.
• Money Mania. (See the Mississippi Scheme and South-Sea Bubble.)
• Montesquieu âEsprit des Loix,â ii. 262-267.
• Montgomery and Macnamara, frivolous cause of their fatal duel, ii. 297.
• More, Hannah, on animal magnetism, i. 287.
• Mormius, the alchymist, memoir of, i. 178.
• Mortlake, Dr. Deeâs house at, i. 153, 162.
• Moses cited by alchymists as an adept, i. 95;
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♦ claimed as a Rosicrucian, 175.
• Moustaches, fashion of wearing, i. 302.
• Mummies, an ingredient in charms and nostrums, i. 271.
• Muntingâs history of the tulip mania, i. 87.
• Oath on the Evangelists and holy relics, a test of innocence, ii. 264.
• Odomare, a French alchymist, i. 136.
• Official peculation in France under the Regent Orleans, i. 7.
• Omens: winding-sheets, howling dogs, death-watch, âcoffins,â shivering, walking under ladders,
upsetting salt, thirteen at table, piebald horses, sneezing, dogs, cats, bees, itching; Oriental belief in
omens, i. 255.
♦ poisoned by the Earl and Countess of Somerset and their accomplices, 193-201.
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♦ Madame de Brinvilliers; La Chaussée and others executed there for poisoning, 212, 213,
215.
• Plague at Milan prophesied, i. 225.
• Plays on the adventures of thieves, their evil influence, ii. 253, 257.
• Poisoning, in Greece and Rome; its spread in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries;
declared high treason in England, ii. 192;
♦ Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned; full history of his case, with portraits of Overbury, the Earl
and Countess of Somerset, Lord Coke, and Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, 193-201;
♦ suspicious death of Prince Henry, son of James I., 200;
♦ Buckingham said to have poisoned James I., 201;
♦ fate of Dr. Lamb, the poisoner (engraving), 202;
♦ slow poisoning in Italy, its general prevalence; employed by the Duke of Guise; much used
by Roman ladies to poison husbands, 203;
♦ trial and execution of La Spara and others; other women punished, 204;
♦ atrocious crimes of La Tophania; the nature of her poison; protected in sanctuary by the
clergy of Naples; seized by the viceroy, tried, and executed, 206-208.
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♦ In France: Exili, Glaser, and Sainte Croix, the first criminals, 208;
♦ Madame de Brinvilliers and Sainte Croix; their crimes and punishment, 208-214;
♦ M. de Penautier charged with poisoning; popular mania for the crime, 214;
♦ Lavoisin and Lavigoreux executed, 215;
♦ charges against the Marshal de Luxembourg and the Countess of Soissons; recent revival of
the crime in England, 216.
• Pope, his sketch of Sir John Blunt, Chairman of the South-Sea Company, i. 74.
• Popular Follies of Great Cities, ii. 239-248.
◊ âQuoz,â 240;
◊ âWhat a shocking bad hat,â 240;
◊ âHookey Walker,â 241;
◊ âThere he goes with his eye out,â 242;
◊ âHas your mother sold her mangle?â 242;
◊ âFlare up,â 242;
◊ âDoes your mother know youâre out?â 244;
◊ âWho are you?â 244.
♦ Songs:
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♦ Peter the Great, 267;
♦ Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 195;
♦ Villiers duke of Buckingham, 198;
♦ Lord Chief Justice Coke, 199;
♦ Earl and Countess of Somerset, 200, 201;
♦ Henry IV. of France, 277;
♦ Lord Bacon, 286.
• Political prejudices and enactments against long hair and beards, i. 296-303.
• Poetry and romance, their obligations to the Rosicrucians, i. 179.
• Powell, Chief Justice, his opposition to the belief in witchcraft, ii. 152.
• Prophecies: Plague of Milan, i. 225;
• Raising the dead and absent, a power ascribed to Cornelius Agrippa, i. 142;
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♦ his reputation in Palestine, 74.
• Richelieu an alchymist, i. 198;
♦ their poetical doctrines, sylphs, naiades, gnomes, and salamanders, 172, 179.
• Rouen, view in, ii. 171;
♦ the Parliament remonstrate with Louis XIV. on his leniency to suspected witches, 172.
• Rudolph (I. and II.), Emperors, their encouragement of alchymy, i. 158, 165.
• Rupecissa, John de, a French alchymist, i. 136.
• Russia, tax on beards imposed by Peter the Great, i. 301.
♦ (See Witchcraft.)
• Sainte Croix, the slow poisoner in France, his crimes and death, ii. 208, 211.
• Saints, relics of, ii. 304.
• Saladin, his military successes, ii. 63;
♦ âScratching Fanny,â or the Cock Lane Ghost; her remains in the vault of St. Johnâs Church,
Clerkenwell, ii. 230.
• Seal of Edward I. (engraving), ii. 97.
• Seifeddoulet, the Sultan, his reception of Alfarabi, the alchymist, i. 98.
• Semlin attacked by the Crusaders, ii. 15.
• Sendivogius, a Polish alchymist, i. 164, 165.
• Senés, Bishop of, his report on Jean Delisleâs success in alchymy, i. 193.
• Serlo cuts off the hair of Henry I. (engraving), i. 296, 298.
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♦ his origin and rise at court; supposed vicious connexion with James I.; his intrigue and
marriage with the Countess of Essex; the murder of Overbury; the earlâs trial and sentence,
193-201.
• Somerset, the Countess of, her participation in the murder of Sir Thos. Overbury, with portrait, ii.
201.
• Songs:
♦ the Company originated by Harley, Earl of Oxford; its primary object, 45;
♦ visionary ideas of South-Sea trade; restrictions imposed by Spanish Government, 46;
♦ proposals to Parliament to reduce the debt; capital increased to twelve millions; success of the
Company, 47;
♦ its application to take the whole state debt; counter application by the Bank of England; the
former adopted by Parliament; stock rises from 130 to 300, 48;
♦ Sir R. Walpoleâs warning; directorsâ exertions to raise the prices, 49;
♦ bill passed; great demand for shares, 50;
♦ other bubble schemes started and encouraged, 51, 52;
♦ eighty-six of them dissolved, 55, 57;
♦ shares at 400; fall to 290, but raised by the directorsâ schemes, 51;
♦ dividend declared; increased excitement, 52;
♦ Swiftâ lines on Change Alley; extent of the delusion; frauds of schemers, 54;
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♦ fears of the judicious; bubble companies proclaimed unlawful, 55;
♦ continued excitement; stock at 1000, 62, 63;
♦ Sir John Blunt, the chairman, sells out; stock falls; meeting of the company; Mr. Secretary
Craggs supports directors, 63;
♦ increased panic; negociation with Bank of England, 64, 65;
♦ they agree to circulate the companyâs bonds, 66;
♦ total failure of the company; social and moral evils of the scheme, 67;
♦ arrogance of the directors; petitions for vengeance on them; Kingâs speech to Parliament, 69;
♦ debates thereon, 69, 71;
♦ punishment resolved on, 70;
♦ Walpoleâs plan to restore credit; officers of the company forbidden to leave England, 71;
♦ ministers proved to have been bribed by shares, 73, 77;
♦ directors apprehended; treasurer absconds, 73;
♦ measures to arrest him, 73, 74;
♦ directors expelled from Parliament, 74;
♦ chairmanâs examination, 75;
♦ treasurer imprisoned at Antwerp, but escapes, 76;
♦ reports on the details of the fraud, 76;
♦ Mr. Stanhope, Secretary to Treasury, charged but acquitted; dissatisfaction thereon, 78;
♦ Mr. Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, committed to the Tower, and consequent
rejoicings (engraving), 79;
♦ Sir George Caswall punished; the Earl of Sunderland acquitted; death of Mr. Secretary
Craggs, and his father, participators in the fraud, 80;
♦ heavy fines on the directors; account of these proceedings by Gibbon the historian, 81;
♦ measures adopted to restore credit, 83;
♦ caricatures by Hogarth and others (seven engravings), 60, 61, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84.
• South-Sea House, view of, i. 45.
• Spara, Hieronyma, the slow poisoner of Rome, her trial and execution, ii. 205.
• Speculations. (See Money Mania, the Mississippi Scheme, South-Sea Bubble, and Bubble Schemes.)
• Spenser, his description of Merlin and his cave, i. 232, 237.
• Spirits. (See Demons, Witchcraft, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, &c.)
• Sprenger, a German witch-finder; his persecutions, ii. 118-159.
• St. Bernard preaches the second Crusade, ii. 53, 55;
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• Stedinger, the, a section of the Frieslanders; their independence; accused of witchcraft by the Pope,
and exterminated by the German nobles, ii. 110, 111.
• Stephen, king of Poland, his credulity and superstition, i. 159.
• Stock jobbing. (See South-Sea Bubble.)
♦ âStock Jobbing Cards,â or caricatures of the South-Sea Bubble (two engravings), i. 60, 61.
• Stonehenge ascribed to Merlin, i. 237.
• Suger dissuades Louis VII. from the Crusade, ii. 55-62.
• Sully, his wise opposition to duelling, ii. 279
• Sunderland, Earl of, portrait of, i. 80;
• Tancred, his achievements in the first Crusade, ii. 26, 35, 38, 39, 45.
• Tax on beards imposed by Peter the Great, i. 301.
• Tedworth, Wiltshire, the âhaunted houseâ there; narrative of the deception, ii. 224.
• Tempests caused by witches, ii. 102, 106, 133, 134.
• Templars, Knights, subdued by Saladin, ii. 63;
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• Torture, its cruelty exposed by the Duke of Brunswick, ii. 170.
♦ (See Witchcraft.)
• Toulouse, witches burnt at, ii. 160.
• Tournaments and judicial combats. (See Duels.)
• Tours, haunted house at, ii. 221.
• Tower Hill, bonfires on the committal of participators in the South-Sea Bubble (engraving), i. 79.
• Tower of London, Raymond Lulli the alchymist said to have practised there, i. 109;
♦ (See Relics.)
• Tulip Mania;
♦ the flower first introduced into Europe by Gesner, portrait of Gesner, i. 85;
♦ great demand for plants in Holland and Germany, introduced in England from Vienna, the
flower described and eulogised by Beckmann and Cowley, 86;
♦ rage for bulbs in Holland and their enormous prices, 87;
♦ amusing errors of the uninitiated, 88;
♦ marts for the sale of bulbs, jobbing and gambling, ruinous extent of the mania and immense
profits of speculators, 89;
♦ âtulip-notariesâ appointed, sudden loss of confidence and fall of prices, meetings, deputation
to the government, 90;
♦ unfulfilled bargains repudiated by the law courts, 91;
♦ the mania in England and France, 91;
♦ subsisting value of choice bulbs, 92.
• Tunis invaded by the Crusaders, ii. 96.
• Tunbridge Wells, a witch doctor there in 1830, ii. 189.
• Turner, Mrs. her participation in the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, ii. 194, 198, 199.
• Turpin, Dick, popular admiration of, ii. 251.
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♦ King Jamesâs âDemonology,â 139;
♦ the âLancashire witchesâ executed, 141;
♦ Matthew Hopkins, the âwitch-finder generalâ (engraving), 143;
♦ his impositions, cruelty, and retributive fate, 148;
♦ âcommon prickersâ in Scotland, 146;
♦ Mr. Louis, a clergyman, executed, 147;
♦ Glanvilleâs Sadducismus Triumphatus, 148;
♦ witches tried before Sir Matthew Hale (portrait); Sir Thomas Brownâs evidence (portrait);
conviction and execution, 148-152;
♦ trials before Chief Justices Holt and Powell, 152, 153;
♦ the last execution in England, in 1716, 153;
♦ Scotch laws on the subject, 154;
♦ various trials in Scotland 155-158;
♦ last execution in Scotland, in 1722, 158;
♦ proceedings of Sprenger in Germany, Bodinus and Delrio in France, 159;
♦ executions at Constance, Toulouse, Amsterdam, and Bamberg, 160-162;
♦ numerous executions at Wurtzburg, including many children, 163;
♦ others at Lendheim, 164;
♦ the âWitchesâ Gazette,â a German ballad, 165;
♦ the Maréchale DâAnere executed, 166;
♦ 200 executions at Labourt, 166;
♦ âweir-wolves,â belief in, 168;
♦ Urbain Grandier, curate of Loudun, executed, 169;
♦ singular cases at Lisle, 169;
♦ the Duke of Brunswickâs exposure of the cruelty of torture, 170;
♦ diminution of charges in Germany, 171;
♦ singular remonstrance from the French Parliament to Louis XIV. on his leniency to witches,
171;
♦ executions at Mohra, in Sweden, 177;
♦ atrocities in New England; a child and a dog executed, 180;
♦ the last execution in Switzerland in 1652, 182;
♦ the latest on record, in 1749, at Wurtzburg, 184;
♦ witches ducked in 1760, 185;
♦ Lady Hattonâs reputation for witchcraft; her house in Cross Street, Hatton Garden,
(engraving), 186;
♦ the horse-shoe a protection against witches, 187;
♦ belief in witchcraft recently and still existing, 187;
♦ witch-doctors still practising, 189;
♦ prevalence of the superstition in France, 189;
♦ âfloating a witchâ (engraving), 191.
• Women accompanying the Crusades in arms, ii. 12, 57, 67.
• Woodstock Palace a âhaunted house;â account of the noises, and their cause, ii. 222;
• York, Duke of, his duel with Col. Lennox, ii. 293.
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